THE POINT CDC, in partnership with the New York
City Economic Development Corporation, Mayors Office of
Recovery and Resiliency, Interaction Institute for Social Change,
and HDR, Inc. have selected three artists to work with local
Hunts Point residents and explore the intersection of arts and
climate change. Artists are working with THE POINT CDC to help
bring to life the communitys hope for a climate resilient
future and connect art to two local and ongoing resiliency campaigns:
Hunts Point Resiliency and The South Bronx Community Resiliency
Agenda.

Project description:

I am currently making small tiles out of waste
collected during street clean ups in the neighborhood. The tiles
can be painted with individual messages and artwork. The finished
tiles will be assembled into a mural, tied up on a fence. Hunts
Point residents can use the tile to share their experience about
Hurricane Sandy, the environment and global warming, and how
that affects their community; they can write or paint messages
to the community about how to face future threats, and potential
solutions; and they can share messages of hope for the future.
Local residents will be encouraged to keep adding to the installation.
I go around the neighborhood with a mobile art cart, open my
studio next to Hunts Point Riverside Park on Saturdays, and
organize local workshops in Hunts Point (Pio Mendez Senior Houses,
and the local Hunts Point library). If you would like to have
a workshop, please contact me at igarbani@netscape.net

Mariposa and Roy Secord have also been selected
for the residency. (see descriptions below)

Description of Mariposas project:

Mariposas project as a Hunts Point Resiliency
A.I.R will engage the community with pop up poetry workshops for
youth in the parks & gardens of Hunts Point. She will also
lead writing workshops for families & separate workshops for
adults in The Brick House, The Hunts Point Recreational Center
& other neighborhood locations where people who live &
work in Hunts Point can share their memories of Hurricane Sandy,
as well as their concerns for the environment & global warming.
Mariposas focus combines evoking a dialogue about resilience
as it pertains to climate change with other forms of resilience
& resiliency and how the people of Hunts Point see themselves
& their community as they face the future challenges of our
changing planet on top of everything else they contend with &
battle on a day to day basis. Through poems & stories shared
at workshops & one-on-one interviews, stories of resilience
will be gathered of which a script & performance will emerge,
crafted by Mariposa. Untold Stories of the Hunts Point Peninsula
(working title) will be performed in mid-August at The Point,
CDC by Mariposa & community members. Mariposa Fernández
is a poet, educator, performance artist & activist. She has
been featured on the critically acclaimed HBO Series Habla Ya!
To find out more info, attend or schedule a workshop, please contact
her at mariafernandezma@gmail.com
Website: www.mariposa.nyc

Description of Roy's project:

Mention "The Butterly Effect" and most
people will mention the movie, The Butterfly Effect, where the
lead character Evan keeps creating causes in the past that affect
future outcomes, illustrating how small, initial differences may
lead to large, unforeseen consequences over time.
According to Wikipedia: "In chaos theory, the butterfly effect
is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small
change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result
in large differences in a later state. The name, coined by Edward
Lorenz for the effect which had been known long before, is derived
from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado (exact
time of formation, exact path taken) being influenced by minor
perturbations such as the flapping of the wings of a distant butterfly
several weeks earlier. Lorenz discovered the effect when he observed
that runs of his weather model with initial condition data that
was rounded in a seemingly inconsequential manner would fail to
reproduce the results of runs with the unrounded initial condition
data. A very small change in initial conditions had created a
significantly different outcome.